Saturday, April 18, 2009

STRIKING JELLYFISH

These beautiful jelly fish that I find so ashtonishing can be seen in Gijón aquarium, don´t miss them .They´re mysterious , elegant and dangerous too. The first time I saw one diving I nearly lost my breath to be so close to such a fascinating creature. As I neither moved nor tried to touch it, we nearly became friends. When I went up to the surface I was elated,exhilarated. The sea can provide you with such happiness that we must be aware of the dangers the creatures living there have.

NB2A/C - Homework: The compositions you had for homework were collected and the exercises in St. b. pg 74 and 75 were checked.- Grammar: the contrast about the present perfect and the simple past. St. B pg.138 with the rules and exercises. Grammar books, unit 20 to see the topic in more detail and a handout to do orally to check you had unterstood it.-Reading and speaking : a pair work activity about two film celebrities . you had to read their biographies, write questions and fill in the missing words about the.- Listening: File 6. Two simple and easy listenings to be marked.- Speaking: Describing a picture with a guide with the basic aspects to deal,eg. prespositions, present continuous, there is/are , modal verbs and used for -ing.- Homework:Describe a picture I gave you and wok. pg.60 ,61

NI2E- Homework: Wk, pg 42,43. and grammar ,unit 10. We also saw unit 13 and 14 that should be a review about the simple past and present perfect.-Grammar: With a handout we saw examples and inferred the rules between the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. I hope all this is clear now.- Speaking: Animals: what animals are you afraid of? , pets, insects. Very peculiar ideas came out of this activity.- Listening: St. b. pg 71 . Protecting animal or protecting people?. a true-false activity as a warm up of the following activity.- Speaking: A debate for or against , learning to agree and disagree with other students. I gave you a handout with the most useful expressions and started listing ideas about animals, hunting, experiments and so on.- Homework: wk.pg. 45,46 and get the debate ready for Thursday.

Remember, we´re in a rush and there´s no time to lose, so, please ,make a final effort , come to class and do your homework .

About this blog

My name's Ana Mª de Torres . I currently work at Langreo EOI as an English teacher and this blog has been specially designed for my students who, for whatever reason, can't come to class regularly.

Here they'll find the activities carried out in the classroom and a variety of articles and interesting links to broadnen their knowledge of the language and culture of the many countries English is spoken in.